Digital media company OverDrive Inc. of Garfield Heights said it signed an agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution to offer “hundreds of popular streaming video titles” to public and government library partners in the United States and Canada.

The deal “expands a growing collection of thousands of quality, in-demand streaming videos available through OverDrive,” the company said in a news release. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

With the addition of Warner Bros. films, libraries “will be able to benefit from a transactional, pay-per-use lending model from OverDrive for the first time,” according to the release. OverDrive said that model “eliminates the need to purchase titles in advance of their use and ensures that titles are available instantly to all patrons simultaneously.”

Libraries soon will be able to browse or search for Warner Bros. titles from the catalog in OverDrive Marketplace and curate their collection to match the interests of their communities, OverDrive said. Libraries will be able to set user lending policies for Warner Bros. movies “to manage costs within their material budgets,” according to the release.

Lee Milstein, chief strategy officer at OverDrive, said in the release, "Helping win new patrons, supporting evolving on-demand content models, and providing world-class ease-of-use for digital lending are core to the ongoing innovations we bring to our library partners."

Library patrons will be able to use PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and most other connected devices to stream videos from their library. Some of the Warner Bros. films being made available for lending as a result of the deal are “I Am Sam,” starring Sean Penn; “Natural Born Killers” with Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis; and “Insomnia,” starring Al Pacino and Robin Williams and directed by Christopher Nolan.